At one point in the game you run into a scholar who's studying evolution. He calls himself a psarologist. Psaro was the Big Bad of the fourth game and was searching for the Secret of Evolution.

The DS remake of DQVI has an NPC in Reaper's Peak explicitly state that DQIV is the near future of the same world, and DQV is the far future of it, and the Zenith Dragon hatches from its egg in the ending of that game.

Fan Translation: Prior to the Nintendo DSRemake this was the only way to play Dragon Quest V in English. In 2002, the final SNES translation patch was released and received with much joy, and in 2010, what many thought to be impossible happened: the PS2 version got a complete translation patch, an achievement to be proud and thankful of, due how ungodly hard and time consuming is to translate and patch a PS2 game. No wonder Dragon Quest V for PS2 remains as one of the very few, and well known, originally Japan Only PS2 games to ever be graced with a translation patch.

No Export for You: The original SNES version didn't get a overseas release, it stayed only in Japan, probably because the franchise was still rather unknown outside its country of origin, Dragon Warrior had no chance against Final Fantasy overseas, while in Japan Dragon Quest triumphed over Final Fantasy quite a lot back then. Then comes the PS2 Remake, in 2004 the franchise already had some ground outside Japan but this version still didn't get an international release. Only in 2008 the rest of the world could truly enjoy DQV officially with its Nintendo DS release, before that only Fan Translations were available.

Urban Legendof Zelda: For many years there was a persistent rumor that on original game on Super Nintendo (which never made it out of Japan), that if you choose "wrongly" in the Love Triangle by marrying Nera instead of Bianca, various characters will be hit with Diabolus ex Machina — Bianca's ill father will succumb to Death by Despair, Bianca herself will be forced to eke out a living as an abused barmaid, Nera's Unlucky Childhood Friend Crispin will be miserable, and that Nera is near-useless in battle on top of this. This myth went un-busted until September 2014, when Dragon's Den, the largest English-language Dragon Quest fan site, tracked down a video of a play-through where the player marries Nera and none of this happens. Dragon's Den proceeded to trace the source of the rumor and found it originated as a dark joke in one of the first online FAQs for the game, which predates even the first fan translation; since this FAQ was many Western players' first experience with DQV, it was taken at face value, and thus nobody married Nera to verify the claim.

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